illuminated manuscript/book• His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchaseentireilluminated manuscripts.• The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.• An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medievalmonks.• The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.• She also restoredilluminated manuscripts for Ruskin.• Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenthcentury.• It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.